UID:
almahu_9949702096202882
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 262 pages)
ISBN:
9789042032279
Series Statement:
Cross/cultures ; 127
Content:
Since its inception in the 1980s, postcolonial theory has greatly enriched academic perspectives on culture and literature. Yet, in the same way that colonial goods and services have long contributed to economic and political growth, postcolonial topics have also become a profit-generating commodity. This is highly apparent in the success of the postcolonial novel or in the ability of film to cross over from Asia, Africa and elsewhere to paying audiences in Europe and America. The contributions in this volume, in their various ways, take a critical look at artistic responses to the commodification of colonial and postcolonial histories, peoples, and products from the eighteenth century to the present. They explore, in particular, what literary and cultural texts have to say about commodification after the end of colonialism and how the Western culture industry continually capitalizes on representations of the postcolonial Other. Contributors: Samy Azouz, Lars Eckstein, Rainer Emig, Wolfgang Funk, Jens Martin Gurr, Birte Heidemann, Sissy Helff, Graham Huggan, Stephan Laqué, Oliver Lindner, Ana Cristina Mendes, Sabine Nunius, Carl Plasa, Katharina Rennhak, Ksenia Robbe, Cecile Sandten.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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Bourdieu, Capital, and the Postcolonial Marketplace /
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'Savage' Violence and the Colonial Body in Nathaniel Crouch's The English Acquisitions in Guinea and East India (1708) and in Edward Cooke's A Voyage to the South Sea (1712) /
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Saccharographies /
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"The dark races stand still, the fair progress": Matthew Kneale's English Passengers and the Intellectual Commodification of Colonial Encounter in Tasmania /
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Alice in Oz: A Children's Classic Between Imperial Nostalgia and Transcultural Reinvention /
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Think Local Sell Global: Magical Realism, The Whale Rider, and the Market /
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Dialogue Within Changing Power-Structures: Commodification of Black South African Women's Narratives by White Women Writers? /
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Phantasmagorical Representations of Postcolonial Cityscapes in Salman Rushdie's Fury (2002) and Suketu Mehta's Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004) /
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Amiri Baraka's Revisiting of Slavery: Memory, Historical Amnesia, and Commodification /
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Moving Beyond Irish (Post)Colonialism by Commodifying (Post)Colonial Stage Irishness: Martin McDonagh's Plays as Global Commodities /
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The Moveable Frontier: John Ford and Howard Hawks at Home and in Africa /
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"We are the ones you do not see": The Need for a Change of Focus in Filming Black Britain /
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Exoticism and Authenticity in Contemporary British-Asian Popular Culture: The Commodification of Difference in Bride and Prejudice and Apache Indian's Music /
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Salman Rushdie Superstar: The Making of Postcolonial Literary Stardom /
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Celebrity Conservationism, Postcolonialism, and the Commodity Form /
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Notes on Contributors.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Commodifying (post)colonialism. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042032262
Language:
English
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